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. GAME TABLE. N0. 344,062;

Patented June 22, 1886.

UNITED STATES THOMAS T. STURGES,

PATENT OFFICE.

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME-TABLE.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 344,062, dated June 22,1886.

Application filed March 15, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS T. STURGEs, of the city and State of NewYork, have invented an Improvement in Game-Tables, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a table containing a box for holding thechess, checkers, or other games for amusement or recreation, and areversible panel sliding at its edges into the tabletop. 011 one side ofthe panel is the checker or chess board, and also a tally-board, such asused in cribbage, and the other side of the tabletop is plain, so thatwhen the sliding panel is reversed the table is adapted to its ordinaryuse as a side or center table.

This improvement is to be distinguished from the devices heretoforemade, in which a table is provided with a drawer and a panel that can belifted out and reversed, as the drawer is liable to slide out and thepanel to fall out when the table-top is turned up vertically and stoodaside. It is also to be distinguished from gameboxes that have a slidingcover, but not a surrounding table-top, and when the cover is reversedit does not lie flush with the edges of the box.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the improvedgame-table. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the top with the gameboarduppermost, and Fig. 3 shows the usual form of the top.

The box to contain the chess, checkers, or other games is made of abottom, 1, and sides 2, which form the base or bed of the table-top, andthe legs 3 3 are connected to the box and to the table-top, usually bypivots, so that the table-top and box can be turned up vertically whennot in use, as usual. The contour of the table-top maybe square, round,oval, or polygonal, as desired, the surface of the top being plain, andthe three sides tform an open frame, and are connected together and tothe box, and there are parallel slideways 5 in the inner edges of theframe, and there is a reversible Serial No. 195,238. (No model.)

panel, 6, with slides on two of its'edges, and to which panel one sidepiece of the frame is fastened, and said panel is made plain on oneside,and with the checker or other game board 7 on the other side, andwith the'tally or cribbage board 8, and the edges of this panel 6 fitthe slides 5, and the slide-ribs come in the middle of the edges, sothat the panel is flush with the surface of the table-top when eitherside is up, which is a great convenience in using the table.

The bottom of the box may have the marks usually provided for playingbackgammon, the same as often found in checker-board boxes.

I do not claim a table having a number of interchangeable panels, nordoI claim a gamebox having a main central box and boxes around it and areversible panel, upon both sides of which game-boards are placed. In myimproved table the smooth level top is adapted to ordinary use, and whenthe central panel is drawn out and reversed, to bring the chess orchecker board uppermost, the side piece of the frame that is connectedto the panel fits into the other parts of the frame and is leveltherewith.

I claim as my invention The combination, in a table, of legs, a boxsupported by the legs, an open frame resting upon and three sides ofwhich are fastened to the box, and having parallel slideways in theinner edges of the frame, a reversible panel with slides on two of itsedges, and to which panel one side piece of the frame is fastened, onesurface of the panel being plain and the other surface having a chess orother game board, the surface of the panel being level with the surfaceof the frame when either side is uppermost, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 3d day of March, 1886.

THOMAS T. STURGES.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, WALLACE L. SERRELL.

